This manual page documents briefly the
bootpc
command.
This manual page was written for the
Debian GNU/Linux
distribution (but may be used by others), because the original
program does not have a manual page.
bootpc
is a boot protocol client used to grab the machine's IP address, set up DNS
nameservers and other useful information.
OPTIONS
--bootfile file
Tell the server to use
file
as the boot file.
--dev device
Use
device
to communicate with the server.
--verbose
Be verbose.
--debug
Produce debugging output.
--server addr
Use the IP address
addr
to communicate with the server.
--hwaddr addr
Use
addr
as our hardware address rather than what the operating system gives us.
--returniffail
Terminate the program if a failure occurs. By default
bootpc
will ask the user to press a key if the request did not succeed.
--waitformore length
Wait for more responses when one is received.
bootpc
will wait for at most
length
seconds. This is probably only useful for debugging.
--in2host addr
Takes an address and returns useful bits of the name after lookup, this was a
separate program, but it is more compact to have both together.
--serverbcast
Tell the server to send back a broadcast reply. This is necessary on
Linux
2.1 and 2.2.
--help
Display the usage of
bootpc.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>,
for the
Debian GNU/Linux
system (but may be used by others).